Durga Ashtami 1959
Mahashtami — Kanya Puja and Sandhi Puja of Navratri.
Muhurat & timings
Kashi/IST · astronomically computed- Sankalp (sunrise)05:53
- Sunset17:37
- Fasting window (tithi)1959-10-08 · 22:44 → 20:57
- Parana (tithi ends)20:57
Festival days follow the classical attribution rules — udaya (sunrise), pradosha (evening), nishita (midnight), madhyahna or aparahna vyapini as each festival prescribes — computed for Kashi/Varanasi (IST). Regional observance can differ by a day in some years.
Read the Durga Ashtami puja vidhi, vrat rules and kathaDurga Ashtami — Frequently Asked Questions
When is Durga Ashtami celebrated?
On the Ashtami of the Shukla Paksha of Ashvina — the eighth day of Sharad Navratri, in autumn, two days before Vijayadashami. For this year's date, see the date shown above.
What is Sandhi Puja?
The worship performed across the joining of Ashtami and Navami — the last ghati of the eighth tithi and the first of the ninth. It marks the moment Durga took the Chamunda form to slay Chanda and Munda, and is the high point of Durga Puja.
Is Kanya Puja done on Ashtami or Navami?
It is done on either, and many families keep it on Mahashtami. Young girls are worshipped as living forms of the goddess, their feet washed, fed bhog, and given a gift and dakshina.
How is Durga Ashtami different from Maha Navami?
Ashtami invokes the goddess's fiercest forms and carries the Sandhi Puja; Navami, the following day, completes the worship with the homa and Ayudha Puja before the victory of Dussehra.
Other major festivals in 1959
- Makar Sankranti — 14 January 1959
- Vasant Panchami — 12 February 1959
- Maha Shivaratri — 7 March 1959
- Holika Dahan — 24 March 1959
- Holi — 25 March 1959
- Chaitra Navratri begins — 9 April 1959
- Ram Navami — 17 April 1959
- Akshaya Tritiya — 10 May 1959
- Jagannath Rath Yatra — 8 July 1959
- Guru Purnima — 20 July 1959
- Nag Panchami — 9 August 1959
- Raksha Bandhan — 18 August 1959
- Krishna Janmashtami — 26 August 1959
- Hartalika Teej — 5 September 1959
- Ganesh Chaturthi — 6 September 1959
- Anant Chaturdashi — 16 September 1959
- Pitru Paksha begins — 18 September 1959
- Sharad Navratri begins — 3 October 1959
- Maha Navami — 10 October 1959
- Dussehra / Vijayadashami — 11 October 1959
- Karwa Chauth — 20 October 1959
- Dhanteras — 29 October 1959
- Naraka Chaturdashi (Choti Diwali) — 31 October 1959
- Diwali (Lakshmi Puja) — 31 October 1959
- Govardhan Puja — 1 November 1959
- Bhai Dooj — 2 November 1959
- Chhath Puja — 6 November 1959
- Kartik Purnima (Dev Deepawali) — 15 November 1959
- Guru Nanak Jayanti — 15 November 1959
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